January 16, 2010

Baby Shower Photos!

PHEW!!

Thank you all so much for your wonderful ideas for the baby shower. It's done! Everything went wonderfully, we had such a great time, and I couldn't have done it without all of your wonderful suggestions, so thank you!

I don't remember who's ideas I borrowed exactly, it was kind of a whirlwind, but I did decide to go with the "feather her nest" theme!

And the Martha Poms definitely made it to the party. (how have I never tried those before?? So easy!)

And the word garlands! So fun!

I made some "birdie nest" cupcakes (also Martha's idea) to go along with the "feather her nest" theme. They were so delicious, I think I ate 4 of them....

And I was up until 1am last night (er, this morning?) hand-stitching these little favors;

They were little nest inspired flower brooches with "eggs" (pearls) in the center. I didn't get a very good picture of them, but they were pretty!

And I made a little note tree from branches off of a huge weed in the field behind my yard .

With note cards made from blue card stock that I had on hand, stamped with little boyish sayings, and tied with brown satin ribbons.

I think presents are a decoration in themselves! I love all that pretty packaging!

One of the things I gave our guest of honor was this little t-shirt that I did a reverse applique of a skateboard (her husband is really into skateboarding!)on.....but I guess I used the wrong picture as a guide, because it kind of looks like a salamander to me. Oh well! It gave me and my husband something to laugh about all day :o)

I also gave her a necklace which I got from a wonderful jewelry designer online, but it will get it's own special post soon.

The greatest part was that I had everything on hand, so the only money I spent on the shower was on the ingredients for the cupcakes! Wonderful!

And now I'm going to take a beautiful, lovely nap.

Thanks again for saving the day with all of your ideas guys! You're the best!!

holy cow woman!! That is an AMAZING shower for "thrown together"! And the fact that it looks super high class (like a pottery barn baby shower, if you could buy them there!) but you spent NO money on it?! That makes you my hero. You totally rock. Can I be you when I grow up?

Wow. I am so super impressed by how you pulled it all together and made it look beautiful! Especially with just buying cupcake ingredients. Thank heaven for bloggers and their wonderful sharing of iddeas.

Wow Disney! You just did such a good job!!!!Can you come over (to Spais) to help me host one this summer?? Hahaha!

You are sooo imaginative!

Can I ask you a little question??? How did you attach all the feathers together and them add the tulle and the pearl? Did you use a cardstcok or a metal piece underneath? I tried to do some the last summer but with colour feathers, but they kept falling out of place...Thaaank youuu!!

I was going to leave you a comment on your previous post about making those tissue paper pom-poms, but got sidetracked. It's funny that you decided to do them! (Everything looks gorgeous by the way!) We used them for a friend's baby shower...http://kirascraftylife.blogspot.com/2009/09/nancys-baby-shower.html

Wow it certainly looks wonderful, what a fabulous thing to do for your friend, I hope she appreciated all your work and I hope everyone had a wonderful time. I love Martha, we don't get her here in Australia but I have seen her show when in the US and regularly visit her website.

loved it all! you are so inspiring! PLEASE tell me you are going to do a tutorial on the brooches you made! I have been using feathers in alot of my crafts, speifically some great hair fascinators that will be favors at a party I am helping with, and I would LOVE to make one of those lovely feathery creations of yours for the birthday gir to wear! (my auntie, its her 50th and we are doing a fancy tea with a "classic" alice in wonderland theme,so cute!)thanks again, you are my hero!Jennifer Postcastaic ca

I love love love your blog. and i love love love those feather pearly pins! (or are theyr hair accessories?) do you mind doing a tutorial on them? i woudl love to see how you got the feathers to stick together without a gluey mess.